Table of van der Waals Constants

a b
(L atm/mol2)
2
(L/mol)
# *
Acetic acid 17.48 0.1065
Acetone 15.81 0.1124
Acetylene 4.457 0.0522
Ammonia 4.170 0.0371
Argon 1.337 0.032
Benzene 18.57 0.1193
Bromine 9.62 0.0591
Butane 13.71 0.1164
Carbon dioxide 3.610 0.0429
Carbon disulfide 11.10 0.0726
Carbon monoxide 1.453 0.0395
Chlorine 6.260 0.0542
Chlorobenzene 25.5 0.1454
Chloroethane 11.51 0.0903
Chloromethane 7.467 0.0648
Cyclohexane 21.53 0.1411
Diethyl ether 17.23 0.1333
Dimethyl ether 8.58 0.0774
Ethane 5.51 0.0651
Ethanol 12.40 0.0871
Ethylene 4.552 0.0582
Fluorine 1.156 0.029
Helium 0.0341 0.0238
Hexane 24.52 0.1744
Hydrogen 0.2420 0.0265
 Hydrogen bromide 4.4 0.0442
Hydrogen chloride 3.7 0.0406
Hydrogen cyanide 11.14 0.0881
Hydrogen fluoride 9.440 0.0739
Hydrogen iodide 6.226 0.053
Hydrogen sulfide 4.485 0.0434
Krypton 5.125 0.0106
Methane 2.273 0.0431
Methanol 9.352 0.0659
Neon 0.205 0.0167
Nitric oxide 1.44 0.0289
Nitrogen 1.35 0.0387
Nitrogen dioxide 5.29 0.0443
Nitrous oxide 3.802 0.0444
Oxygen 1.364 0.0319
Pentane 18.84 0.1449
Propane 8.664 0.08445
Silane 4.32 0.05786
Silicon tetrafluoride 4.195 0.0579
Sulfur dioxide 6.775 0.0568
Toluene 24.53 0.1497
Water 5.465 0.0305
Xenon 4.137 0.0516

# converted from data in David R. Lide, Editor-in-Chief, CRC Handbook of Chemistry

and Physics 86th Edition (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor&Francis Group, 2005), p. 6-33

* taken from David R. Lide, Editor-in-Chief, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
86th Edition (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor&Francis Group, 2005), p. 6-33